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>>hhs+(OP)
They film us on the street. They film us at traffic signals, from law enforcement vehicles, and drones, parks and even through our doorbell cameras. I don't mean this glibly, or in its entirety, but the big screen watching your every move in 1984 seems not too far off..

>>ajay-b+sg
Larry Ellison, major asshole and big ally of the current authoritarian regime:

"Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on," Ellison said, describing what he sees as the benefits from automated oversight from AI and automated alerts for when crime takes place.

Ellison, Vance, Musk, Thiel, Luckey, Zuckerberg and many of the tech oligarch assholes want us to live in their surveillance state.

They're currently making good progress. What will you do to help stop them?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnip...

>>dashun+yj
And so plebians vs patricians turns into citizens vs entrepreneurs.

It's not just about who owns the means of production anymore, it's about who owns the means of surveillance (the so called AI).

Two thousand years and humans have learned nothing. Power and money still lead to more power and money which lead to abuse, which after decades gets so bad it leads to revolution. Except this time they want to make revolutions impossible. So they _have_ learned but common people have not.